Associate Professor Shahid Ullah

Associate Professor in Biostatistics

College of Medicine and Public Health

place Health and Medical Research Building
GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Shahid Ullah is an Associate Professor in Biostatistics and the Teaching Program Director of Public Health at the college of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, with 20+ years’ experience in theory and practice of biostatistics in health and medical research. Dr Ullah was awarded his BSc Honours, MSc, and PhD in Statistics and has a strong expertise in statistical and epidemiological methodology and modelling for health and medical research. His biostatistics expertise has been highly sought after in diverse settings, generating 200+ peer-reviewed publications (h-index=47) and 12,000+ citations, and >$25 million in collaborative research grants as a named Chief Investigator, including 12 MRFF and 3 NHMRC grants in the last 5 years. He is a statistical editor for few esteemed journals and supervises postdoc, PhD, and Master students. His current research involves statistical and epidemiological methodology and modelling, geospatial analysis, machine learning, time series modelling and functional data analysis for time series forecasting. Shahid is happy to collaborate with students, researchers, clinicians, and health practitioners across a range of fields within the public health, medicine, health and medical sciences.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science (Honours) Statistics

Masters Statistics

PhD Applied Statistics

Honours, awards and grants
  • MRFF RCRDUN-COVID-19 Grant 2021-2023 ($973,114) (CI): 3D-printed facial guards to reduce P2/N95 respirator leak and protect health care workers from COVID-19.
  • MRFF Dementia Ageing and Aged Care Grant 2021-2023 ($1,400,000) (CI): Creating partnership in iSupport program to optimise carers' impact on dementia care.
  • National Foundation for Australia-China Relations Competitive Grant 2021-2023 ($400,000) (CI) Strengthening professional collaboration in dementia caregiver education and research via the provisionn and evaluation of the iSupport program in Australia and Greater China.
  • DCRC World Class Research Grant 2021-2023 ($536,584) (CI): Strengthing partnership with carers through innovative delivery of an iSupport program.
  • Diabetes SA Grant 2021-2024 ($300,000) (CI): Australian lifestyle change program to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes amongst a high-risk propulation (AUS 2 Prevent).
  • Channel 7 Children't Research Foundation Grant 2021-2021 ($100,000) (CI): Linking homeless children and their families to community health and wellbeing services: using a nurse practitioner model of care to improve child health outcomes.
  • Flinders Foundation Health Seed Grant 2021-2021 ($21,650) (CI): Understanding out-of-pocket health expenditure impacts on Aboriginal families.
  • Flinders University Innovation Partnership Seed Grant 2020-2021 ($15,000) (CI): Development of cross-culture care skills in aged care staff to improve resident choice and control over care services.
Key responsibilities

Education, consultation and collaboration

Teaching interests

My 20 years of teaching responsibilities include statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology and demography from first year to masters level for both small and large classes in Australia and overseas. My current teaching responsibilities include biostatistics to undergraduate and post graduate students within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University. I also taught biostatistics at Federation University School of Health Sciences, Monash University Biostatistics Unit, Dhaka University Institute of Statistical Research and Training, Government and non-Government organizations.

Topic coordinator
PHCA9524 Advanced Biostatistics
PHCA2507 Biostatistics
PHCA9523 Introductory Biostatistics
Topic lecturer
PHCA2507 Biostatistics
PHCA9523 Introductory Biostatistics
MMED9151 Medicine 1B (Biostatistics)
PHCA9524 Advanced Biostatistics
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Further information

I am extremely proficient in R, S-Plus, STATA and SPSS. I have working knowledge on MLWiN, MPlus and SAS.